The Railway Budget 2015!

The railway budget just came out today, and I am too quick to update my views about it. First and foremost its my maiden technical post so forgive me for mistakes. 

Writing this I am listening to live debate on Times Now and views from all the different sources. But what I am to write is my view. Now I am a staunch NaMo supporter and speaking frankly I am not much pleased about the functioning of his governance. Yes, I know that for the better results I must wait but Railway Budget is a good way to mark my reviews. Now if you are active the new Railway Budget includes key points as:

1	The most-expected part about this year's Railway Budget - there is no increase in passenger rail fares.
2	Rs.8.5 lakh crore will be invested in Railways in next 5 years.
3	'Operation 5 mins', wherein passengers travelling unreserved can purchase a ticket in 5 minutes.
4	Bio toilets and air plane-type vacuum toilets in trains.
5	Surveillance cameras in select coaches and ladies compartments for women's safety without compromising on privacy.
6	Rail tickets can now be booked 120 days in advance.
7	Speed on nine railway corridors to go up to 200 km per hour.
8	Wi-Fi in more stations, mobile phone charging facilities in all train compartments.
9	Facility of online booking of wheelchair for senior citizens.
10	Satellite railway terminals in major cities.
11	Centrally managed Rail Display Network is expected to be introduced in over 2K stations over the next 2 years.
12	All india 24/7 helpline - 138 from March 2015 ; Toll free No.182 for security.
13	917 road under-bridges and over-bridges to be constructed to replace 3,438 railway crossings; at a cost of Rs. 6,581 crore.
14	Four Railway Research Centres to start in four universities.
15	Details about new trains and increased frequency will be announced later in this session of Parliament after review.

Source: The Hindu 

Now, its a smart budget according to me.  I am like 15, so my views are not that technical.As a chaff, what I am confused about is it good or bad. As if I look it as a NaMo supporter , I expected something more. But then flying high and promising new things may make us happy while switching on the TV but when you think of it after switching it OFF is "Is that really possible?" But with this budget yeah there are guarantees of it to be fulfilled. Because it is not announced to show off to the non performers but to impress people like us, the AAM ADAMI. Its a step to modernise the Indian Railway and not build air castles. It concerns not new trains to be promised but just to improve the whole experience of the trains already there.

 Now, you may introduce many new trains but the question is are they really required? That is the thing this budget answers. Because it introduces no new trains, But tries to enhance the whole travelling experience of the already present, daily running and the passengers train. 

There is no price hike in the railway fare. What could be better than that? Yeah, there could be a decline in the fare. But I think on this front its well balanced. No Pro. No Con. 

First of all the provision of the CCTV cameras for the safety and the mobile charging ports. If you are a staunch critic this things may not matter. But as a person who I am , a teenager yaa this are the minute details i  am looking for. I have nothing to do with how much money is spent, what is the source of it, I am just a common person! For me these small details can make a change. Introducing helpline is a great idea. I am looking forward to it while I visit my home town this year and complain of the worst case scenarios of the toilet.  

You can order your railway food online. That's awesome. You would just have to access the site and know what you want to order and get it. Now the concern for eating in the Railways has always been the sanitation maintained while cooking it. But okay they at least introduced a new beneficial thing.

Then comes the WiFi facility at almost 200 stations. Now what I am missing here is why is this sudden craze for WiFi to be made available to the public? Okay its a good thing but then you would have people hanging out at railway stations and crowding up only to use the WiFi. If anyone can correct me on this, you are welcomed!

Provision for a message alert on your mobile about the schedule of the train! Technological advancement has been the centre of the Railway Budget and I support it all. Making the already huge infrastructure advanced can earn great revenues. 

Next, automated Ticket machines. Awesome! E-tickets and app. Awesome! 4 months pre reservation WTH? This is the most disappointing facet of the railway budget today. And was a complete bouncer to me. How can I decide before 4 months if I want to go at any XYZ place or not? And many events can take place in the 4 months span its a way too large span of time. But you can always cancel your ticket and get the refund, so.... Okay!! 

All together, this might not be the best budget we have seen but is definitely the most promising one to me. I mean, I got that from the idiot box. Of course this is the first budget I am facing as a sane person. But what I really like about this budget is its sincerity to be true and achievable. The arguments laid down have a very close approach at enhancing the railways and making it a really nice experience to travel in rather than just spitting out things not really possible. Now again we have to wait for the real things to be seen in action but then as of now, on paper, its doing good!

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© Aditi Tiwari. 2015. DBA

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It was stupid to take the blog down but the good news is that it is back with a bang again.

Final Destination!! :P

We all have seen this , well talked about Hollywood film right? The "Final Destination". Or the Final Destination, Final Destination 2, Final Destination 3, Final Destination 4, Final Destination 5, and no thats all. What I love about the film is when I googled it, there is no such thing like Final Destination 6 coming any way soon. So! To the people who don't know about it (I have "Friends" in 12th who might be not knowing) so it is basically a script copied from all the Indian houses and then directed in Hollywood background with a dab bit of sense. It almost like my mother telling me when I call her from back "Peeche se nahi tokte" in The Warner Bros version. Because in any one of the series they ll have a miserable protagonists who would have this deja vu intuitions of HD Blu-ray deaths with enormous and enumerable blood spatters and would have a Bollywood twist and be like okay it was all in my head. Last time I saw something like that was in KJo's and Aditya Chopra movies where the whole song sequence is nothing but a mere dream. But what is my utmost problem with film is not the lazy writers who can't think of anything new but how to kill someone is most unexpected almost impossible way but is that the shitting movie, of the shitting series,comes on a shitting channel, every shitting single time, with a damn fucking different name.  Like I am watching Final Destination 4 on HBO and the same film is coming as Final Destination 1 on Z Studios and as Final Destination 2 at PIX. I literally am pissed of this fact as to why can't they understand the fact that your movies as so shitting'ly repetitive that even International Broadcasters are confused about it. I mean literally what was that shit of the man lazily lying on his dead bed scene and when he is expected with a single "Dadaji abb nahi rahe" in classic Bollywood its done with so much of Hollywood influence that another man is also killed in the same scene like as to same time. I don't understand that when they have scared the shit out of people in the every first scene of the film why you have to waste more of 80 minutes. Because you know almost all the films of the series are merely on an average of 90 minutes. I mean yaar itni humari Star Plus ki Maha Movie bhi hoti hain. The shit of clubbing all the romantic episodes of Yeh Hain Mohabbatein and titled like "Pyaar bhara Valentine" Dekhiye 2-4 sirf iss Sunday cause you are a shitting jobless if you still follow star plus. Another fact of the movie is the making of common places to death scenes. I mean they haven't taken anything or anywhere dangerous but the places normally we are are used to like Going to watch a car race, Air Port, Roller Coaster, Bus on a bridge, Optician's clinic, Gym, and beauty parlour. I mean it scares the shit out of me when I am in car as after watching Final Destination 2. And the fact that the picture is tried to be portrayed as completely logical what the hell is wrong with of not counting the correct people in the first edition of the series itself. If you know what is so insane about it just google it. Now finally I salute the film as it always had well portrayed actors in it who are probably the background crowd who die on the spot in first scene and are the only sensible enough to not face shit for rest 80 minutes. And they also manage to scare the shit by releasing it in 3D. No not of the audience but of the producers after the first week of screening as they were like "Kiska idea tha re.. Bhaari humne itne kaise kamaaye?!"  But down the line it is one of my most loved "horror" (ROFL) ever. 

Disclaimer: No offence, pure sarcastic review intended for the fun of the audience to read. 

Inspired by : The Roast of Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor by AIB Knock Out .

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© Aditi Tiwari 2015. DBA.